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EA and Microsoft recognised as "Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality"

Both EA and Microsoft have received a 100 per cent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, earning them a place in its "Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality" list.

"Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2013 Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT employees," explains the official website.

Last year EA was awarded a score of 90 per cent, and Microsoft 100 per cent.

I am very pleased that EA has scored a 100 per cent rating and been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign in a year where the company has taken significant steps to remain inclusive, said EA's chief talent officer Gabrielle Toledano.

EA has made changes to our medical benefits, been involved in LGBT events in our community and taken a public stance against the Defense of Marriage Act. EA champions diversity with a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves.

Hopefully these companies are the vanguard. They're certainly big enough and visible enough for this to be an example.

A far cry from the days of Turing, thank goodness. Although with Uganda implementing that appalling law this year (life sentence for merely being gay, amongst other things), some places are obviously more enlightened than others.

While this is certainly positive for EA and Microsoft, and the LGBT community as a whole, I would argue that this is more region dependent than a corporate culture per se. For instance, how different would those results be if either company had studios in Uganda or Nigeria?

@Simon, I'm sorry, I did not intend my comment to diminish these efforts towards a more tolerant and equal workplace for everyone.

I only wished to express that this openness is only possible and in fact depends on the social and cultural climates of the countries where these companies exist. For instance, this would probably not have been possible a century ago, had both EA and Microsoft been around then, because mentalities and times have changed (for the better).

@Hugo Trepanier. I am sorry but how many companies in Europe or in France for example that just approved same sex marriage really are for equality for LGBT? Videogames, banks, technocompanies maybe and multinational ones but for local companies I am not sure it is safe to say that it's based on cultural open-mindness because of geographic reasons.

Though, I do hear what you say about Uganda, Nigeria and similar countries.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Marine Fradet on 19th November 2012 9:13pm